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www.ministryoftofu.com — Yu Jianrong, a famous human rights activist and sociologist, who campaigned against abducted children exploited as beggars earlier this year, made another appeal on April 15 to microblog users: Take pictures of faulty footpaths for the blind and upload them to a public page.

www.allsetlearning.com — AllSet Learning has just made its Chinese Grammar Wiki project publicly available. It’s been accessible to clients in Shanghai for some time, but now we’re proud to share it with the rest of the Chinese-learning world as well. Why a Grammar Wiki? Web-savvy learners of Chinese have known for some time that there’s no single comprehensive grammar resource for Chinese grammar on the entire internet.

www.chinadecoder.com — According to the Economic Observer, a recent investigation by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) found that only approximately 40% of funding for scientific research projects are actually used for scientific research, while the remaining funds tend to disappear through other outside expenses.

www.sinosplice.com — John talks about and to an American named Nathan who recently appeared on the Chinese reality TV show 非你莫属, which sees contestants interviewed for jobs on camera. The post considers whether the time of the dancing laowai on Chinese TV is coming to an end.

www.guardian.co.uk — Tibet visitor restrictions tightened in leadup to celebrations marking 90th anniversary of Chinese Communist party

tealeafnation.com — Mr. Yu Li, an essayist who writes under the pen name Sima Nan, was involved in a freak accident on an escalator at Dulles airport in Washington DC . He has since suffered a virtual pummeling on Weibo.

www.npr.org — In 1978, the farmers in a small Chinese village called Xiaogang gathered in a mud hut to sign a secret contract. They thought it might get them executed. Instead, it wound up transforming China's economy in ways that are still reverberating today.

www.smh.com.au — "They are stealing everything that isn't bolted down, and it's getting exponentially worse," said Representative Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican who is chairman of the US Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

"We're talking about stealing entire industries," he said. "This may be the biggest transfer of wealth in a short period of time that the world has ever seen."

www.thedailybeast.com — The Voice Of Treason: China's most famous dissident artist, Ai Weiwei, speaks out about the ordeal of his Detention.

www.reuters.com — Jack Ma, the founder and CEO of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, is keen on buying Yahoo Inc if the opportunity presents itself and has held discussions with other potential buyers about options.

The former English schoolteacher later added that, were he to have his way, he would be eager to acquire all of Yahoo, not just the stake it owns in Alibaba.